Nearly 20,000 people have signed a petition condemning next week’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as a “non-binary and transgender extravaganza” over the inclusion of two gender non-conforming ...

Beginners often have difficulty reading the value of –2’s complement number; here’s a simple technique that may help. In my previous column, I introduced the SANX-I Microcomputer, whose goal is to ...

Whether you create your own code-signing certificate, or use a certificate from a certificate authority, it’s easy to give your Windows binaries the seal of approval. If you compile programs on ...

In the first column of this series, I introduced the concepts underlying BCD (binary-coded-decimal) representations. In my second column I discussed how we go about adding and subtracting unsigned BCD ...

The sender’s unique information should be used in a signature; It should be easy to create a signature; It should be impossible to falsify a signature computationally; A signature should be small.